CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,014 homes.
Ranks 140 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Cote Farm & Park Farm, Dunsdale - Solar ArraysElgin Energy | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2022/0615/FFM |
| A171, Guisborough Woods - Battery Energy Storage SystemHarmony MS Limited | Battery | 28 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2025/0456/FFM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 50 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 32 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough and Thornaby East | 0.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Stockton West | 161 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Redcar | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Stockton West next door has 161 MW waiting, more than Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland's 50 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.